Zogam

Zogam (or Chinland, the political appellation mainly used to describe the envisioned unified and separate democratic nation-state) is the name for a territory, approximately 60,000 square miles (160,000 km²) in size, in Burma, India and Bangladesh. It is the traditional home of the Zomi, who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.

It does not include Asho settlements in Lower Burma and Masho settlements in the Arakan (Burma). The area extends from latitude 25º 30’ North in the Somra tracts facing Mt. Saramati, and in Nagaland across the Namtakik River and the North Cachar Hills, to about 20º 30’ North Latitude. The longitudinal extension is between 92º 10’ East and 94º 20’ east. The North-South length of the Zogam is roughly 350 miles (560 km) and East-West is generally about 120 miles (190 km) wide.

One Zomi folksong delineates the area of Zogam as follows:

“Penlehpi leh Kangtui minthang,

A tua tong Zouta kual sung chi ua;

Khang Vaimang leh tuan a pupa

Tongchiamna Kangtui minthang aw”

(The famous Penlehpi and Kangtui

Between the two is the Zomi country

The Southern King and our forefathers

Made an agreement at the famous Kangtui)

This old folk song tells of the area of the Zomi ancestral homeland, for Penlehpi is a Burmese word for the Bay of Bengal and Kangtui is identified with Tuikang (Chindwin River).

== Zogam (Zoram) ==tuimang Zogam is within the land inhabited by the Zomi or Chinmi State in Myanmar and further the land inhabited by the Zomi in India and Bangladesh. Chinland is the founding name for the whole Zomi inhabited areas of land spread across three political and separate country/international boundaries. Lairam is another name used by the townships the Southern Chin Sate in Myanmar. Zogam (Mizogam or Mizoram), or Lairam (Lai-land), and other tributary tribes who too called their land according to their own dialects. And all of them put together makes up a Greater Chinmi or Zomi. Zogam covers 1. the Whole Chin State, 3. Plain chins (lower lands), 3, Some part of Bangladesh until it reaches to the Bay of Zogam (Bay of Bengal), 4, Mizoram and 5, India Manipur, Churachanpurs. Therefore, Zogam is an indigenous identity of the Chin peoples together with the Kukis(Thado), Lushai(Lusei or Mizo), Pawi, Khalkha, Phalam and all Chinmi. Chinland (Zogam) thus equals to all the lands inhabited by these hill tribes collectively known as Chin people(Zomi), and they comprise of the Laimi, Tedimmi, Mara, Khumi, Zophei, Senthang, Lautu, Zotung, Manipur, Thado, the Zou, Simte, Paite, Milhiem and other tributary tribes.

==See also==tuimang

• Separatist movements of India
• Separatist movements of Sri Lanka
• Separatist movements of Pakistan
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Manipur
• Mizoram
• Zomi
• Chin
• Bamar

External links

• Zogam.com
• English-Tedim Dictionary
• Zolai-English Dictionary
• Zomi International Network
• History of the ZOMI ethnic group, re-unification movement, organization, land and people
• News Portal from Lamka, one of the most important Zo-inhabited town in Manipur, India
• Zogam Nuam
• Zomi Siamsin Universities, Myanmar
• The Zomi Social Network
• VAPHUAL.net Exclusive Zomi/Zogam News Portal